CNN's Kate Bolduan told IE: "That final line that Larry Wilmore delivered will be remembered."

"That is what these guys come to do, they come to start conversations and they did," Dana Bash of CNN told IE.

Monday's New York Daily News said Wilmore's joke "breaks the rules."

Sunny Hostin said on Monday's View: "I think using the N-word when you have the first black president of the United States sitting there, having him for two terms of a presidency, was so disrespectful. It was so inappropriate."